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Asteroid (200) Dynamene is a large and very dark main-belt asteroid. It probably has a primitive composition similar to the carbonaceous chondrite meteorites. It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on July 27, 1879, in Clinton, New York. The name derives from Dynamene, one of the fifty Nereids in Gree...

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A small northern New Mexico village now shares its name with a 5-mile-wide asteroid crater on Mars. The International Astronomical Union recently named the Martian crater for the village of Chupadero, which sits at the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The name was provided by Brad...

Physical parameters of the upper atmosphere of the extrasolar planet HD209458b Every 3.5 days, the transits of the gaseous planet orbiting the star HD209458 offer the unique opportunity to investigate the spectral features of an extra-solar planetary atmosphere. The st...

Title: The K2-ESPRINT Project VI: K2-105 b, a Hot-Neptune around a Metal-rich G-dwarf Author: Norio Narita, Teruyuki Hirano, Akihiko Fukui, Yasunori Hori, Fei Dai, Liang Yu, John Livingston, Tsuguru Ryu, Grzegorz Nowak, Masayuki Kuzuhara, Yoichi Takeda, Simon Albrecht, Tomoyuki Kudo, Nobuh...

ATel 9944: ASASSN-17ad: Discovery of A Probable Supernova in CGCG 314-011

The Universities Space Research Association (USRA) has announced that its teammate L-3 Communications Integrated Systems has completed all major physical modifications required for initial flight-testing of NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). SOFIA is...

Astronomers Discover Powerful Cosmic Double Whammy Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and several other telescopes, astronomers have discovered a cosmic one-two punch unlike any ever seen in a pair of colliding galaxy clusters called Abell 3411 and Abell 3412. This result, descr...

Chandra Deep Field South : Deepest X-ray Image Ever Reveals Black Hole Treasure Trove This is the deepest X-ray image ever obtained, made with over 7 million seconds of observing time with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. These data give astronomers the best look yet at the growth of black holes ov...

The 260 - 590 metre wide asteroid 2003 UX34 will make a close pass (73.2 lunar distances, 0.1882 AU), travelling at 25.74 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 14th September, 2012 @ 16:24 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (o...

Ominous Coronal Hole In Earth-Strike Zone: Solar Storm Forecast 01-05-2017 Spoiler

Herschel Sees Budding Stars and a Giant, Strange Ring The Herschel Space Observatory has uncovered a weird ring of dusty material while obtaining one of the sharpest scans to date of a huge cloud of gas and dust, called NGC 7538. The observations have revealed numerous clumps of material, a baker's d...

Sunspots 11719, 11717, 11718, 11716, 11714, 11720, 11711, 11713 and 11715 captured with a 100mm refractor + Vesta pro webcam + Solar filter. Processed with Avistack2 Music via an Amiga 1200

NGC 1667 (also NGC 1689, PGC 16062, MCG -1-13-13, IRAS 04461-0624, 2MASX J04483720-0619114 ) is a magnitude +12.1 barred spiral galaxy located 201.23 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. The galaxy was discovered by French astronomer Edouard Stephan using a 80.01 cm (...

Title: HST PanCET program: A Cloudy Atmosphere for the promising JWST target WASP-101b Author: H.R. Wakeford, K.B. Stevenson, N.K. Lewis, D.K. Sing, M. López-Morales, M. Marley, T. Kataria, A. Mandell, G.E. Ballester, J. Barstow, L. Ben-Jaffel, V. Bourrier, L.A. Buchhave, D. Ehrenreich, T.M....